Lacaton & Vassal: Living in the City
This exhibition foregrounds a critical priority for the Pritzker Prize-winning French architects: Urbanism begins inside each apartment, with quality housing for everyone.
Exhibition dates: July 27 - September 23 2023
This exhibition presents three years of teaching and research framed by inaugural Rothwell co-chairs Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal at the University of Sydney School of Ar颅chitecture, Design, and Planning.听
Connecting Lacaton & Vassal鈥檚 architectural projects, doc颅umentary films, research, and studio investigations focused on the Sirius Building and the Waterloo Housing Estate, Lacaton & Vassal: Living in the City illumi颅nates a method based on close attention, transformation rather than demolition, and provision of the highest quality of living space. It foregrounds a critical priority for the Pritzker Prize-winning French architects: Urbanism begins inside each apartment, with quality housing for everyone.
Curators: Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal,听Hannes听Frykholm & Catherine Lassen
Collaborators: Matthew Asimakis, Liat Busqila, Mackenzie Nix, Caitlin Roseby
Documentation by Maja Baska and Philippe Ruault 漏 2023
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Still from 'Constructing Escape - A Story about Air, Void and Light (Part 4)' a film by Karine Dana, 2019
Transformation of 530 Dwellings, Bordeaux, France, photo by Phillippe Ruault 2015
Exhibition Tour
Venue: Tin Sheds Gallery
Dates:听Saturday 23 September 听12.00 pm
Join curators Hannes Frykholm and Catherine Lassen for a tour of the exhibition followed by a discussion.
Tin Sheds Gallery acknowledges the Gadigal of the Eora Nation, upon whose ancestral lands our exhibitions take place. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge of these lands, waterways and Country.
Sponsored by the Embassy of France in Australia.
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